Recently asked by management to find a reporting tool for Website usage. Since we have SonicWall NSA 250m's in place, I went with the trial version of Analyzer. Once I got the LDAP Services and Single Sign on working, I started seeing data collections. When I went to the reports module in the Dashboard, I found how to make reports, but unfortunately, not to the level that management wants. Their requirements are simple:

1. Scheduled reporting - they don't want to have to use the Dashboard to find their information

2. User (identified by Active Directory) (this I have)

3. Website accessed

4. How long on the website.

I'm able to go into the Firewall feature, and put together some reporting, but not the level that they are asking.
Has anyone else use Analyzer and been able to create a report that would be emailed each day, and show the above requirements??

PS - I've spent approximately 4 hours on the phone with SonicWall and their techs, with WebEx, and they poked and prodded through the software but were unable to provide what I'm looking for. Not a slam against them, maybe it's not possible, however, when you look at the description of how Analyzer works, it says that "Individual user activities are tracked locally or on remote network sites to provide even greater insight into traffic usage across the entire network and get a closer look at application usage, web sites visited, backup activity, and VPN connections per user."
I can do individual reports, but not scheduled and not as a group.

Take a look at our WebSpy Vantage application for more advanced / customizable reporting options using your SonicWall logs. It has a very flexible report tempting engine and I'm sure we'll be able to build the report(s) your management are asking for.

You can alias users into Departments or OUs from Active Directory, schedule log imports and reports, and also publish reports to a secure web interface with strict permissions for department managers etc.

I have the same issue as the OP. Management requires 4 monthly scheduled reports showing:

- Top 20 sites accessed.

- Top 20 users (by data).

- List of users and time spent on top 10 sites each

- List of users and amount of data used on top 10 sites each.

From what I can see, particularly the last 2 reports doesn't seem to be possible in Analyzer. Dell's version of "custom" reports and mine are very very different as this is more of a "custom filtered" report.